by Helen | Jan 9, 2026 | Book reviews
A clever title that might give the wrong impression.It’s not chick-lit, and it’s not a thriller about serial killer middle-aged women, either.Instead, Middle Rage is a slowburn contemplation of life as a woman in four different forms. There’s Clover,...
by Helen | Dec 27, 2025 | Book reviews
A fun new outing from the author of the incredible Dungeon Crawler Carl series.Operation Bounce House follows the fate of some young farmers on the recently(ish) colonised planet New Sonora. Oliver Lewis and his sister are the last surviving members of their family,...
by Helen | Dec 20, 2025 | Book reviews
As you’d expect from the title and cover (it’s always nice when these things align), this is a darkly humorous story of a sociopath and a body or two that get in her way. Lalla Rook is an ambitious sociopath, with a husband she needs to make partner, a...
by Helen | Dec 17, 2025 | Book reviews
A cult that isn’t a cult springs up. Groups of people standing still, trying to become trees.Bren and his partner Caelyn encounter a group early on, an eerie group of strangers who believe they can become part of nature when they’re ready. Bren and Caelyn...
by Helen | Dec 16, 2025 | Book reviews
A hard book for me to rate because it creeps up on you.It begins with two boys leaving a house party in 1999. Another boy’s body discovered. Police who don’t know where to look in a small town. Then there’s a twenty year gap, another body, and...
